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UDC Takes BASF’s OLED Portfolio

by Tom Allen

Universal Display Corp. has acquired the OLED IP assets of BASF SE. These include more than 500 issued and pending patents worldwide, in 86 patent families. The purchase price is approximately €87 million. The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Patents| UDC| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Shifts in the Display Technology Landscape

by Norbert Hildebrand

The last few decades can be easily labeled as the Display Decades (DD). With the rise of LCD, PDP, OLED, LED, DLP, Laser, EPD and other technologies, we have now a wide array displays …

Tags:CRT| display technology| LCD displays| LED| MicroLED| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Dash Insights Tackles Emerging Display Trends at Local Talk

by Steve Sechrist

If you’ve ever wanted to step back to get a view of the ‘forest for the trees’ look at the display industry trends, then look no further than the recent talk given by long-time …

Tags:display technology| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Society| Vol 23 - Issue 25| Wearable Market

Will Apple Drop OLED for LED?

by Tom Allen

Supply chain sources claim that Apple will move away from LG’s plastic OLED display in the next Apple Watch. Instead, the company will use a micro LED screen. Apple acquired micro LED maker LuxVue …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Flexible OLED Applications Arrive

by Isaac Oburu

R2D2, a joint project to analyze and development high-TRL processes and technologies for manufacture of flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has been successfully …

Tags:Germany| LED| OLEDs

Gou: Sharp Will Produce OLEDs in 2017

by Tom Allen

Credit: NikkeiThe Nikkei has said that Sharp will begin to ship OLED panels next year. Foxconn chairman Terry Gou made the statements at the annual shareholder briefing.

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| sharp| Supply Chain| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Ignis Signs Patent License With LGD

by Tom Allen

Ignis Innovation has signed a patent license agreement with LG Display, covering its circuit technology for use in OLED displays. The agreement is non-exclusive, but specific terms were not disclosed. Analyst Comment I wrote …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Patents| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Checking the Flavour of the Kool-Aid

by Bob Raikes

A couple of weeks ago, Barry Young of the OLED Association suggested that Chris Chinnock and I had ‘drunk the Kool Aid’ in accepting arguments from quantum dot suppliers at the recent SID event …

Tags:OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Audi Takes OLEDs From LG Display

by Tom Allen

LG Display has revealed that it is the supplier of the OLED taillights for Audi’s TT RS coupe. ETNews revealed the fact, and also said that LG is planning to supply OLED display screens …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| LG Displays (LGD)| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 24

AUO is “Cautious” About OLED Investment

by Tom Allen

AUO chairman and CEO Paul Peng has said that the company will take a “cautious” attitude to OLED investment. Peng does not think that OLED panels will replace LCD products in the short-term (two-to-three …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS03 Nanosy Positions QDs

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Dr ZhongShen Luo of Nanosys, who talked about quantum dots. First he spoke about the company (we covered this recently in our SID report: QDVision Summarises Quantum Dots). Then he …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Nanosys| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Samsung Leads OLEDs With 95% Share

by Tom Allen

Korea’s UBI Research estimates that Samsung Display’s OLED shipments now represent 95% of the global total, as rising numbers of smartphone makers adopt its AMOLED panels. In Q1’16, 91.3 million OLED displays were shipped …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 23